Is The Act of Killing actually good?

The Act of Killing sits in the 92.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.8% of them.

How does The Act of Killing compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Act of Killing lands in the 95.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Act of Killing's score based on?

134 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Act of Killing's score.

2012

global pct

92.8

Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s

The Act of Killing

Name: The Act of Killing
Genre: Biography, Crime, Documentary
Released: 2012

Scored from 134 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

92.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

134 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A documentary in which former Indonesian death squad leaders, who participated in the 1965-66 anti-communist mass killings, are invited to reenact their crimes in the style of the Hollywood films they love. As the perpetrators stage elaborate cinematic recreations of murder and torture, the project becomes an unsettling exploration of memory, impunity, and how violence is rationalized by those who committed it.

The Act of Killing is a 2012 biography, crime and documentary film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 469 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 134 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 138 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Act of Killing (2012) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 134
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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